Month: January 2017

We have exciting news to share! AdClear for iOS is available to beta test! We would really appreciate your help in making sure AdClear is up to standard before it’s released to the public. Joining takes a few easy steps:

Download the TestFlight app. This is Apple’s own application that allows developers to conduct beta tests.

Sign up for the beta on our website. You must use your Apple ID email address.

You’ll receive an email from us containing a code (note: It won’t be automatically sent. We’ll be sending them out in batches). Enter that code in TestFlight, and you’ll be able to download the app!

Users, if you feel any guilt about blocking ads, know that you can choose which apps and domains you want to support through AdClear’s App Management and Domain Whitelist screens. Most of our users do; perhaps because you are level-headed people and not the foaming-at-the-mouth barbarians the media paints you out to be. Framing users like this allows advertisers to say, ‘If we could just be civil we could figure this out.’ This oft-mentioned but never defined ‘civility’ is simply for ad blockers to go away. It’s just a tool to stay in power, as it’s easy to frame calmness as more important than fairness nowadays.

With the new year upon us, news about advertising returns on some of your favorite sites will be coming along. With that in mind, I thought I’d go over some of the words that advertisers use to help you understand their meaning.

If you pay attention to the online advertising news, you may have heard the term “native advertising” before. More and more it is is being lauded as the new solution to dissatisfaction with advertising. So what is it exactly?

As we’ve previously noted, Nougat’s changes to user certificates has caused Advanced Protection to be less effective than normal. Since it’s our main tool for blocking YouTube ads, users have been disappointed in not seeing the same performance as before when browsing YouTube. We are still investigating ways to overcome this without rooting, but we have found some simple moves that will have an immediate impact.

In the middle of last year, Google took steps to protect their search engine users. Besides their wishy-washy AMP initiative, Google has taken steps to remove malicious ads from front page results. Though that may be accomplished already with popular searches (e.g. Coca-Cola), it wasn’t uncommon for more esoteric searches to bring sketchy results. Most people don’t realize when malware infects their devices, so Google took it upon themselves (tragically lately so) to do something about it. Starting on January 10th, these changes will come into effect.

On December 23, 2015, we launched the first version of AdClear. Now, more than a year later, we’ve improved the app beyond our wildest dreams. On this celebratory occasion, and it being a time of reflection, we want to look back at what the app was, what it’s become, and what it will be a year from now.

Posts navigation

Archives

About

AdClear is an ad blocker for Android devices that requires no root. Using Android's VPN function and our innovative Advanced Protection certificate, AdClear is able to block ads over HTTP and HTTPS before they reach your device.